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From: zimmer@cod.NOSC.MIL (Thomas L. Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Geoworks Ensemble
Message-ID: <2859@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 22 Feb 91 16:39:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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I got 3 mail responses to my query about Geoworks Ensemble product.
All three said that Ensemble is an impressive product - well integrated,
very good performance, impressive graphics and output capabilities.
However, for low-end laptop use its not going to work - it requires
about 3M of memory, requires a mouse, and because it operates in
graphics mode - is not shown to its best advantage on a CGA screen.
It also lacks a spreadsheet - though from what I've heard other
places Geoworks continues development on more applications for their
environment. Sounds like a great alternative to Windows(tm) for
your desktop PC or 286/VGA laptop - but looks like I'll stick with
Works(tm) for my T100SE.

Unfortunatly, that still leaves me without a simple object-oriented
drawing tool (something like MacDraw). There are several of these in
the Mac market, but the PC world seems to consist of either cad programs
that are overkill and not very intuitive or presentation programs that 
are not very flexible. Any ideas? GEM Draw might be about right, but I'm
not sure it will fit on my laptop. I also saw someone playing with
Word Perfects new drawing package a couple days ago - it has potential,
but again, does anyone know how "big" it is?

Lee

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Lee Zimmerman, Naval Ocean Systems Center, Code 421, San Diego, CA, 92152
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